A.Little.Long.Winded

So i guess i never finished my discussion on "Butterfly in Brazil"...

The problem is, if you look at my copy of the book, i probably highlighted 2-4 lines on every other page! And honestly, it's not that the ideas presented in the book are terribly unique or ground breaking, it’s the fact that they’re right. Accuracy is never cliché to me. If accuracy or the truth ever gets cliché, the Word loses it’s potency and we lose the power of our faith (...if “faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word...” and if the Word has become cliché then it has lost it’s power...)

So let me summarize my thoughts on the book by quoting one section...

(p.90)
“We look at a church service, or a conference packed with people, and call our job to disciple others done. We sell books and CDs and convince ourselves that our calling to train people is being accomplished. ... But sales is not the same as impartation. An attendee is not a disciple. Mass communication doesn’t automatically mean personal transformation.”

I pray that our heart to change the things around us never falls to the level of numbers=discipleship, sales=impartation. O God, never let it be. God give us (the church) disciples, those who are fully devoted followers, LEARNERS UNDER DISCIPLINE.

Oh God,
Let change begin small (with me)
Let change begin locally, wherever I am.
Let change be gradual because if it’s big flash in the pan it won’t last.
Let the change that is given be exponential in growth...
for the glory of God and the growth of the Kingdom.